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PEORIA, AZ  Almost three decades ago, when Tim Flannery and Jerry Royster platooned at second for the Padres, the combined player became known as Timry Flanster.

Fast forward to the present Padres and the right field combination of Will Venable and Chris Denorfia.

Denable? Or Venorefia?

“I don’t want to go there,” Denorfia laughed yesterday as he discussed what looks to be a third full season of sharing right field with Venable.

Although, Bud Black stops short of calling his right field tandem a platoon.

“It’s still sort of evolving,” the Padres manager said Monday. “I don’t want to call it a traditional platoon. We weigh trends. We’ll go with the hot hand. It’s not a platoon all the time.”

But when the Padres’ brass crush the numbers in right field around baseball, they like to say “their platoon” of Venable and Denorfia ranks among the top third of all right fields in the major leagues.

They have the numbers to prove it.

The Miami Marlins, thanks to Giancarlo Stanton, had best right field OPS – the baseball statistic derived from adding the on-base percentage to the slugging percentage – at .866. The Padres were No. 10 with a .802 OPS. In between the two teams were the Cardinals, Angels, White Sox, Reds, Braves and Orioles.

The Padres, however, believe their tandem ranks even slightly higher based on the defense and running skills of Venable and Denorfia – both of whom also saw time at the other two outfield spots last season as well as being used as a pinch-hitter.

“I’m happy with our right field situation,” Padres general manager Josh Byrnes said several times during the off-season as the names of other right fielders were tossed around the rumor mill.

Padres right fielders hit a combined .280 last season with 37 doubles, 14 triples and 59 RBI. The right fielders scored 104 runs and stole 28 bases. The right field position led the Padres in runs scored and triples and was third in doubles and homers while having the second-fewest strikeouts.

Not great, but not the Padres most pressing need. And some in the organization believed the Denorfia-Venable platoon might give way next year to prospect Rymer Liriano, until the 21-year-old had elbow reconstruction surgery to wipe out his 2013 season.

Venable and Denorfia agree that one of the best parts of their situation is that Black uses both in different roles. Neither is limited to being a part-time right fielder.

“We’re both pretty involved in most games even when we’re not starting in right,” said Denorfia, who last season hit .294 with 12 doubles, five triples, six homers and 22 RBI in 261 at-bats while playing in right. Venable hit .286 as a right fielder with 20 doubles, seven triples and six homers for 30 RBI.

Together they had 203 at-bats other than in right, including 52 while pinch-hitting.